GTE Distributed Object Computing Group: Technical Reports

On June 30, 2000 GTE
Corporation and Bell Atlantic Corporation merged to form
Verizon Communications.
At that time GTE Laboratories was merged into the Bell Atlantic
Technology Organization to form Verizon Laboratories.

The primary focus of the Distributed
Object Computing Group within GTE Laboratories was the Distributed Object
Management (DOM) project. The DOM project conducted research into
object-oriented technology for integrating heterogeneous, autonomous,
distributed (HAD) computer systems/resources. Major research areas included:
interoperable object models; interoperable, distributed object architectures;
heterogeneous, extended transaction models; and information requests in HAD
environments. The group experimented in these areas using the prototype DOM system
that it developed over five years. This technology was based on ideas from a
number of technical areas including distributed, object-oriented, databases,
multi-database systems, operating systems, and programming languages.

The following technical reports (TR) were produced by the DOM group.
References are given for those that have
been published and the TR designation has been removed. Some reports are marked
as [not available], the remainder have not been published other than as GTE
Technical Reports and are available in the
ACM SIGMOD Anthology.

Dimitrios Georgakopoulos:
A Framework for Dynamic Specification of Extended Multidatabase
Transactions and Interdatabase Dependencies.
Proceedings of Third Workshop on Heterogeneous Databases and Semantic Interoperability, Boulder,
February 1992

Michael L. Brodie,
Mark F. Hornick:
An Interoperability Development Environment For Intelligent
Information Systems.
Proceedings of the International Workshop on the
Development of Intelligent Information Systems, Niagara-on-the-Lake, April
1991